Scala dei Turchi

Beach Sicily, Italy

The Scala dei Turchi is a white rock face that rises above the sea along the coast between Realmonte and Porto Empedocle, in the province of Agrigento.

The cliff is made up of a spur of white marl prominent on the sea, whose layers degrading into layers give it a very suggestive appearance, accentuated, in turn, by the strong chromatic contrasts if one thinks of the blue of the sea and of the sky contrasted with the white blinding of the rock. The form that this monument of nature takes is precisely that of a stairway, where according to legend, during the Moorish invasions that raged in the 16th century, the Turks (so erroneously called) landed in the territory of today's Realmonte, clambering up the stratifications of this crag.